The Backcountry Classroom: Lesson Plans for Teaching in the Wilderness - Softcover

Drury, Jack K.; Bonney, Bruce F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934802181 ISBN 13: 9780934802185

Publisher: ICS Books Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Designed to help instructors and students master and teach the WEA curriculum. Contains the basics of a safe, enjoyable and environmentally sound expedition.

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Review

""The Backcountry Classroom" is a valuable reference work for every outdoor professional." Jim Gould - Adirondack Mountain Club"This is truly a user friendly volume. "The Backcountry Classroom "serves as an excellent resource for those involved in instructing others about how to survive in, take care of, and enjoy the wilderness." Robert Osgood - Visiting Assistant Professor of Education

About the Author

The Wilderness Education Association is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes wilderness education and preservation through wilderness leadership training at the college level. Affiliate organizations are accredited to offer WEA's National Standard Program for Outdoor Leadership Certification (NSP). Successful graduates of these programs receive WEA certification. Jack K. Drury is a WEA instructor having taught WEA NSP courses annually since 1979 and is a former president of the Wilderness Education Association. He was the founding director of the Wilderness Recreation Leadership Program and an Associate Professor at North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, New York. He is co-owner of Leading EDGE, a professional development organization that designs learning experiences for educators, businesses, non-profits, and government agencies. Bruce F. Bonney taught public middle and high school social studies at Morrisville-Eaton Central School in New York for twenty-three years. A WEA instructor, he was an associate of Education by Design at the Antioch New England Graduate School before cofounding Leading EDGE. He is an adjunct professor for North Country Community College. Dene Berman, Ph.D., a practicing psychologist, is Clinical Professor in the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He has been involved with the wilderness therapy movement since the mid 80s, and is co-author of Wilderness Therapy: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, as well as numerous articles in professional journals. A WEA instructor, Dene is on the Board of Trustees and is the current President of the WEA Board. Mark C. Wagstaff is currently an associate professor of Recreation, Parks and Tourism at Radford University, Virginia. Mark has been instructing for the Wilderness Education Association since 1986 and served as executive director for three years. Mark's outdoor career includes instructing for the North Carolina Outward Bound School and professional whitewater guiding throughout the United States and abroad.

Edition details

• Publisher: ICS Books Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934802181
• ISBN 13: 9780934802185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288